atonment

By never mentioning sin, the need for confession, and atonment, and amending lives to reject occasions of sin, we now have generations of Catholics who don't believe anything is a sin except what is in the 10 Commandments

More inculturation and liturgical "updating", courtesy of the Asian bishops 2009

They have lots of atonment for their Clinton assaults, this is certainly a step in the right direction.

Firedoglake » “Lapdogs” and the FDL Book Salon 2006

But like the victims of a horrendous crime, the Chinese are not going to forgive anything less than full atonment.

Archive 2004-08-01 2004

It is probable Uncle Billy thought going through the mud "sock! sock!" sinking into the mud well-nigh chin deep, and being grinned at while in that pitiable condition by that impudent and wicked "jacker-mer-lantern," was a sufficient atonment.

Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters 1859

That a God, to undo a rule he created, sends a man to be sacrificed as a blood atonment for all our sins, which he is directly responsible for so that we can all go and live in a cloud theme park.

CNN.com 2011

thanks for the comments. this piece very much answers the mystic in me. theologically, we HAVE to get outside of time--Christ's death and sacrifice happened in such a way that it envelopes the whole of human history. full atonment for all sin that had happened up to that point or would happen until history is closed . . .

yes, exactly Sara 2008